FEAST DAYS OF GOD ARE TO BE
OBSERVED TODAY BY CHRISTIANS
by Gene Smith
This is NOT Judaism or Judaizing

We have in our world traditional nominal Christian holidays that have
been labeled Christian by the Catholic church organization, which
adopted these times from the heathen observances in honor of the sun
god and can be traced all the way back to the Babylonian religion of
the worship of Nimrod and his wife consort, Semiramis. See these
documented books, The Two Babylons by Dr. Alexander Hislop and Mystery
Babylon Religion by Ralph Woodrow, for evidence of this. Even the Dake
Annotated Reference Bible by Finis Dake says in his footnote to Acts 12:4 
that Easter, Christmas, and Lent are heathen festivals from the Babylon
religion and are not to be observed by Christians. See also any major
encyclopedia for evidence of this.

So how we see the heathen festivals or feasts have taken the place of God's 
festivals or feast times that God said for His people to observe throughout 
their generations. Are not the generations of His people, His disciples, still 
going on? Then why is it that people who say they are Christians and 
followers of the Bible, do not observe these festivals or feasts that Christ 
Jesus observed, leaving an example. 1 Peter 2: 21-22. As Christians, we are 
Israel in the New Covenant. See Galations 3:28-29. I am going to supposedly 
"prove" these festivals of God are not to be obeyed and observed by the 
Christian church today and to show the evidence from scripture that they are 
to be observed today, as 1 Corinthians 5:8 says.

In Leviticus 23 there is a major list of God's feasts. He told His Israel people, 
our forefathers, to observe at certain times of the year, according to the 
beginning of the first month. Abib or Nisan, in God's timetable. These feasts 
and annual Sabbaths could fall on any day of the seven day week, not all on 
Saturday as some claim. This can be proven easily by showing that there are 
only five days between the Day of Atonement and the beginning of the Feast 
of Tabernacles, both annual Sabbaths, and mathematically no way can both 
holy days fall on a Saturday. The annual Sabbaths in God's Festivals are to be 
obeyed the same way as the seventh day Sabbath of the fourth commandment. 
Now, these feasts of God are just that - feasts of God, not the "jew's holy
feasts", there were no Jews around when God gave His feasts to 
Israel. The world Jew means one who lived in the nation of Judah or Judea. 
Israel got these Feast days from God not paganism. God gave these days as 
part of His Laws to be observed by Israel throughout all their generations. 
These days are not Israel's feast days but God's feast days. Leviticus 23: 1-2. 
God originated these feast days, not Israel, never to be abolished. Any 
change in the law is not approved of God. Malachi 3:6, Deuteronomy 4:1-2. 
God's feasts are not called the "feasts of Judah/Israel." God gave His Israel 
people His weekly Sabbath day, the seventh day of the week, Saturday, to 
observe forever, yet it is not "Israel's sabbath" or the "Jew's holy sabbath". It 
is God's weekly Sabbath day, because God is the originator of the weekly 
Sabbath day (see Genesis 2:2-3) and the giver of the weekly Sabbath to 
Christians. It is not "Israel's sabbath" or a so-called holy "Jewish sabbath". 
The seventh day Saturday sabbath is the Lord's New Covenant day, as Christ 
Jesus said He is Lord of that day. Matthew 12:8, Mark 2:28, Luke 6:5, Mark 
2:27.

If you will read Leviticus Chapter 11 through chapter 27 you will see that the 
feasts of God are a part of His laws for His Israel people, laws which most 
Christians, who know they are Israel, believe are still to be observed. Yet 
some in identity circles, just like people in the world's "churchianity", say, in 
essence, "Well, I will obey some of these laws (like God's food laws of 
chapter 11), yet I will not observe His feast days", which are also a part of 
God's laws stated in chapters 11-27. Why do we have this cafeteria, pseudo-
Christianity even among some of our own Israel people, who know who they 
are? The same is true when reading God's laws stated in Exodus chapters 20-
23 and Deuteronomy chapters 5-27. All of these chapters contain God's laws 
for His people Israel, including mentioning the ten commandments (see 
Exodus 20 and also Deuteronomy 5). Notice that there are no sacrificial 
Levitical priesthood laws mentioned in Exodus 20-23 and in Deuteronomy 5-
27. Read Jerimiah 7:21-24. We do not have the right, or to put it in legal 
terminology, the correct jurisdiction to say what laws of God we will obey and 
what laws of God we will not obey as Christians. James 2:10 clearly says that 
if only one law of God is broken, to God all of the laws have been violated. So 
if the fourth commandment is violated, then to God all the other laws have 
been violated also. The same is true for God's Festivals. These Festivals or 
Feasts were not and are not tied to the sacrificial and ceremonial laws of God 
for the Levitical Aaronic priesthood and the tabernacle, which were done 
away with at Christ Jesus' death. Hebrews 10:1-10, Daniel 7:26-27. Notice what 
God says in Jeremiah chapter 7:22-23, Psalms 51:16, 17, 1 Samuel 15:22, Hosea 
6:6, and Micah 6:6-8. God the Father wants obedience to His laws, not animal 
sacrifices. Ecclesiastes 12:13, Isiah 43:23-24, 1 John 3:4. When God originally 
gave His laws to His people He did not give them sacrifices, e.g., the 
sacrificial system which was the major part of the Levitical priesthood and 
earthly tabernacle services. These are not given at all in Exodus chapters 20-
23 and Deuteronomy chapters 5-27. Clearly then God's feast days are a part of 
these laws mentioned herein and no animal sacrifices are attached or 
mentioned as relating to them. This is conclusive solid evidence that Jeremiah 
7:22-23 is correct, and that God's feast days are just as much a part of God's 
laws for His people to observe as much as any other parts of His laws 
mentioned in Exodus chapters 20-23 and Deuteronomy chapters 5-27. So God 
only restated His laws in the book of Leviticus after the establishment of the 
Levitical priesthood and its sacrificial system, as seen in Exodus and 
Deuteronomy. Clearly also in Exodus 12 God gives His people the Passover 
and Feast of Unleavened Bread, two of the seven feast days of God, long 
before any Levitical priesthood and its sacrificial system was established. In 
light of this Biblical evidence no one can truthfully say that the feast days of 
God are in any way connected directly to the Levitical priesthood and its 
sacrificial oblation system, when they were given by Almighty God to His 
people, along with the rest of His laws (including the Ten Commandments), 
before the Levitical priesthood and its sacrificial system was established.

The observance of God's feast days, all seven of them, beginning in the early 
spring on the 14th of Nisan or Abib and lasting through what we call the 
month of October, are just as valid a part of God's laws for His people to obey 
today as are the Ten Commandments, as has been shown by the Biblical 
evidence given here. Yet still the nominal Christian denominations close their 
eyes to this scriptural truth, as Jesus said the people did even when He was 
on the earth in Matthew 13:14-15. The preachers are the ones God says are 
mainly responsible in leading His people astray from His laws being His 
commandments and statutes. Ezekiel 22:23-28, Jerimiah 23:1-2, 4-14, 21-32. 
Also read Matthew 24:4-5, 2 Peter 2:1-3, 1 John 4:1, Ephesians 4:14, 5:6-7, 1 
John 5:17, 3:4, 7-8. These false prophets' fate is given by Christ Jesus in 
Matthew 7:21-23. Iniquity is living in violation of any of God's laws, which is 
also sinful. 1 John 3:4. Truly, these people are the Laodiceons, Revelation 
3:14-18, including preachers, who take the scriptures of the prophets and the 
new testament totally out of context to supposedly "prove" that the Christian 
church today does not have to obey God's feast days. One is Isaiah 1:11-14. 
Are God's feast times the subject here? No! Notice Isaiah 1:1. These 
scriptures of Isaiah were written in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and 
Hezekiah, kings of the House of Judah. God calls these rulers of Judah Sodom 
and the people Gomorrah in verse 10. In verse 4 God says they are a sinful 
nation. What is sin? Read I John 3:4, Romans 7:7, I Corinthians 15:56, and 
John 8:3-11, where Jesus says committing adultery is sin. Is not the law 
against adultery a part of God's laws? Sin is the breaking, the violation of 
God's laws. So says the Bible, not me. Therefore, how could God be 
condemning His feast days in Isaiah 1:11-14, since they are a part of His laws 
to obey as has been shown. The rulers and people of Judah were in 
disobedience to God's laws as stated and disobeying God's feast days also, 
since observing God's feast days are a part of God's laws. This is just logical 
theology, using God's own definition of what is sin, the violation of His 
commandments and statutes.

What then were these feast times as mentioned in verses 11-14? Notice, God 
says they were Judah's feasts times, not His. We have seen that the feast 
days were God's feast days, not Israel's. God says Judah's new moons and 
appointed feasts He (God) hates. What were these feasts and why did God 
hate them? Read II Kings 15:32-35 with II Chronicles 27:1-2 and II Kings 16:8-
18 with II Chronicles 28:21, 25. Here are the historical accounts of the sins of 
Jotham and Ahaz, the same kings that lived when Isaiah wrote his book. 
Isaiah's book, is talking about the sins of these kings of Judah and the new 
moons and appointed feasts of these kings and the people of Judah during 
this time.

By reading the above historical account, we can see clearly that these feasts 
were feasts to honor the false heathen gods of the Syrians. The people 
burned incense and sacrificed in the high places in the days of Kings Uzziah 
and Jotham and as they had previously in I Kings 15:1-4. What were these 
high places? Quoting the New Unger's Bible Dictionary, pg. 569, "The high 
places were features of Canaanite religion", and the conquering Israelites 
were commanded to destroy them when they entered Canaan (Numbers 33:52, 
Deuteronomy 33:29). Israel came in contact with the high places of the 
Noabites before they entered the land (Numbers 21:28, 22:41), being defiled 
by Canaanite fertility cults and other paganistic pollutions, the high places 
were often connected with licentiousness (Hosea 4:11-14) and immorality 
(Jeremiah 3:2). At Gezer, firstborn babies were slain and their bodies placed in 
jars near the high place. The Ugaritic tablets of the late 15th century B.C. from 
Ras Chamra, show that animals were sacrificed in the high places of Baal in 
North Syria. One of the best known high places is the "Conway High Place" 
at Petra. This Bible dictionary says that there were stone altars with phallic 
poles, symbols of fertility cults. They were in honor of Baal, the sun god, and 
found mainly in Petra, the stronghold of the Edomites, the main enemy of 
Israel. These facts are also found in the New International Dictionary of the 
Bible, and the Dake Annotated Reference Bible.

Both King Uzziah and his son King Jotham did not destroy high places that 
were still being used by the people of Judah. II Kings 15:35 states that King 
Ahaz did even worse. He sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places 
personally as King of Judah. (II Kings 16:4)

These were the sins of Judah being talked about in Isaiah 1:11-14. These 
sacrifices, burnt offerings, oblations, and incense were observed in honor of 
Baal, the sun god, on altars patterned after those of Assyria. (II Kings 16:10-
16 and II Chronicles 28:1-4). Remember, Isaiah knew they were to sacrifice on 
the annual sabbaths and feast days especially. These abominations by King 
Ahaz were surely done on annual sabbaths and feast days in honor of Baal, 
the sun god, not the true God. II Kings 16:4, II Chronicles 28:1-4. They were 
patterned after the heathenism of Assyria and Syria, done on annual 
sabbaths and feast days of God essentially. It was King Ahaz who took 
precious treasures from God's House, the temple, and gave them to be used 
by the King of Assyria. (II Kings 16:8). He took what was God's annual 
honored Baal and heathenism at these times, turning them over to Baal, 
thereby making them Judah's annual sabbaths and feasts, not God's. That is 
why God says these annual sabbaths and feast times were yours (Judah's), 
and therefore not His any more. These times were still calculated by the new 
moons. (Isaiah 1:16)

This is exactly what happened in the House of Israel as described in Hosea 
2:11 in the days of King Rehoboam of the House of Israel. Read this history 
in I Kings 12:26-33, 13:1-34, 14:1-16. He changed God's Feast of Tabernacles 
from the seventh month to the eighth month, making it not God's feast any 
more, but Israel's feast, originating with King Jeroboam, not with the true God 
of Israel. (I Kings 12:26-33). This is what God through His prophet Hosea 
says He will cause to cease, not His annual sabbaths and feast days, but the 
abominations in honor of Baal, the sun god, patterned after heathenism by 
the House of Israel and Judah on their annual sabbaths, not God's, and on 
their feast days, not His. This is what God through the prophets Isaiah and 
Hosea in the days of certain kings of the House of Israel and Judah (Isaiah 
1:1, Hosea 1:1) calls an abomination, evil, sin, iniquity, and what He hates.

God is not speaking about His annual sabbaths and His feast days to be 
observed in His honor. How absurd and ridiculous are the lies of preachers 
and people who say these scriptures in Isaiah and Hosea picture God's 
annual sabbaths and feast days being done away, when the truth of God's 
word is shown. These scriptures are speaking about the annual sabbaths and 
feast days originated by the House of Israel and Judah to honor the false 
heathen god, Baal, the sun god, who originally was Nimrod of Genesis 10 
supposedly reincarnated, and to practice the abominations of the heathen at 
these times, making these times Israel's and Judah's sabbaths and feasts 
(yours), calculated by their new moons. These annual sabbaths and feasts of 
Israel and Judah were not being - observed at the time God said to observe 
them, but at a different time as seen by King Jeroboam's example, I Kings 
12:26-33, and definitely not after the manner God said to observe them in His 
honor.

Also, if God had said His annual sabbaths and feast times were evil, 
abominations, and iniquity and that He was going to cause them to cease, 
why is it that we have the example of Jesus Christ, His parents, and His 
disciples observing them? (Matthew 26:1-2, 17-19; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 2:41-
43, 22:7-14; John 2:23-25, 4:45, 7:1-10, 14, 37; John 11:55-57 with 12:20-23 and 
13:1, 29-31). Notice that Jesus came to the feast days of God at times even 
when His life was in danger. He obeyed God's laws, even if it meant His 
death, which it eventually did. Jesus Christ was betrayed by Judas while 
observing the Passover, and murdered by them the next morning. Can you 
grasp this? Jesus Christ was found observing the first of the seven feast 
days of God Almighty at the place God said to observe it, at that time in 
Jerusalem, and by so doing cost Him His life on this earth in fulfillment of 
prophecy. The Bible says He left us an example that we should do as He did. 
(I Peter 2:21 and I John 2:6) Why would Jesus Christ be observing God's feast 
days and God's annual sabbaths if God had called them evil, an abomination, 
iniquity, and said he hated them and was going to cause them to cease, 
especially at the expense of His life on this earth?

Obviously, Jesus Christ did not believe that Isaiah 1:11-14 and Hosea 2:11 
referred to God's annual sabbaths and feast days. If so, why did He observe 
them even at the risk of His life. Jesus knew the scriptures. He even quoted 
from Isaiah and did according to the scriptures so that some prophecies in 
Isaiah could be fulfilled. (Matthew 4:12-14, 8:16-17, 12:14-21; Luke 4:14-21) 
Since Jesus knew the scriptures of God's word, He more than anyone should 
have known Isaiah 1:11-14 did not mean God's annual sabbaths and feast 
days were done away. The very fact that He did observe them is evidence 
beyond question that God was not speaking about His annual sabbaths and 
feasts in Isaiah 1:11-14 and Hosea 2:11.

Notice that the Apostle Paul obeyed these feasts of God Almighty and 
taught the Christian church to do so. (Acts 18:21, I Cor. 5:7-8) He was not 
doing this just to be able to witness to the Judeans at the special times. Paul 
was an apostle to the Greeks and the House of Israel, not the jews or 
Judeans. He said he must keep this feast. The word "keep" here means in 
Greek to do and is translated observe in Acts 16:21. Paul would not have had 
to observe this feast just to go there to witness to the Judeans in Jerusalem. 
You don't have to at Christmas time observe Christmas to witness to Judeo-
Christians. Nor did Paul have to keep (observe) this feast of God, which was 
the Feast of Tabernacles, just to be able to witness to the Judeans there. He 
was not the apostle to the Judeans anyway, Peter was, and Paul said he 
would not build on another man's foundation where Jesus' teachings had 
already been taught, as was definitely the situation at Jerusalem. (Romans 
15:19-21)

Paul, in no uncertain words, tells the Corinthian church, which was composed 
of Greeks, not Judeans or jews, to observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, 
including the Passover. In Acts 20:6 is sound evidence that not only Paul but 
other Christian companions of his waited until after the Days of Unleavened 
Bread, which includes the Passover as well and the Feast of Unleavened 
Bread, before sailing from Philippi to Troas. Why the wait, if it were not 
because they were observing the Days of Unleavened Bread? Philippi was a 
Greek city, not a jewish one. Why would Paul wait in a Greek city to observe 
this feast of God? These newly converted Greeks had never observed any of 
the feasts of God. Why would Paul and his Christian companions be waiting 
until after this feast of God in a Greek city if the feasts of God were for jews 
only? Paul and his companions were not bound to observe any so-called 
jewish laws as Christians, nor are Christians today. Yet the feast of God, all 
seven of them, are not jewish feasts, but God's feasts He gave to all of Israel, 
not just to Judeans. They are called the jew's feasts in some of the scriptures 
in the gospels, because it was mainly the Judeans who were observing them 
at the time and held mainly at Jerusalem, the capitol of Judea. Yet, here is Paul 
and his companions waiting in a Greek city until after the Days of Unleavened 
Bread before sailing to Troas. The only logical reason for them to wait until 
after the feast was because they were observing these days as Paul had also 
commanded the Corinthian Christians to do. Here is positive proof, totally 
overlooked or ignored by most preachers and people today, that Christian 
Paul and the Christian church at Corinth were observing the feast days of 
God Almighty as given in Exodus, Deuteronomy and Leviticus.

What about Colossians 2:16-17 and Ephesians 2:15? Does Paul say here that 
God's annual sabbaths and feast days are abolished and for Christians to not 
observe them in these scriptures? Not at all! Only by not analyzing these 
scriptures correctly, and the historical setting, do most preachers and people 
reach this false conclusion. Paul is writing to Greek Christians at Colosse. 
They also had never observed God's annual sabbaths and feast days 
previous to becoming Christians. They were not jews or Judeans and had 
known nothing about the laws of the true God or the scriptures of the 
prophets before becoming Christians. Paul calls them "the uncircumcision" 
and describes them as being "dead in their sins". Remember, sin is the 
disobedience to God's laws. (I John 3:4, Romans 7:7) These Greeks at Colosse 
had not been obeying God's laws containing obedience to His annual 
sabbaths and feast days. Yet now they are being forgiven their sins by 
becoming Christians (Colossians 2:13) and were now striving to live by the 
teachings and example of Jesus Christ. (Colossians 2:5-7) Colossians 2:14 
speaks about the handwriting of ordinances, Greek dogma, being done away 
(no longer binding on these Greek Christians at Colossi, by Jesus' death). 
These ordinances were not God's laws but false, human philosophies, 
especially Greekphilosophies, which were saturating the entire Greek and 
Roman world at that time and reaching even to Judea. (Colossians 2:8) These 
ordiances were also asceticism, the denying oneself of pleasures in this life 
which God says are good, some even living a monkish type of existence to 
supposedly purify themselves. (Colossians 2:20-23) These false, human 
philosophies saturate eastern religions today, and are found in the Catholic 
church throughout its history. Colossians 2:16, in context with the knowledge 
of the above, reveals that Paul is clearly telling these Greeks Christian 
Colossians not to let any man judge them for what? For not observing God's 
new moons, feast days, or the weekly sabbath? Of course not! Remember, 
they had never observed these days and times. They were not now being 
judged by their peers, unconverted, still pagan Greeks, for now observing 
them! This scripture in context makes no sense any other way. These 
Christians at Colosse, Greeks all, could not have been judged self-righteously 
by the non-Christian fellow Greeks for not observing God's new moons, feast 
days, or weekly sabbath, because they were not observing them either. The 
only logical reason they would be judging these new converts to Christianity 
is because these Christian Greeks were now observing God's feasts and 
sabbaths. Also, notice these Christians were also being judged "in meat and 
in drink". They were not ascetics anymore, now enjoying good food and 
drink by eating meat God has sanctified to be eaten and not getting drunk 
when drinking alcoholic beverages. Their fellow Greeks, non-Christians, were 
either self-righteous ascetics, living a monkish existence, or were the other 
extreme, being gluttonous, eating meats not sanctified by God, and drinkng to 
become drunk. Colossians 2:16 shows that these Greek Christians were 
obeying God's laws and being self-righteously judged by these non-
Christian, fellow Greeks for doing so. Ephesians 2:15 speaks about these 
same ordinances, Greek dogma/pagan Greek philosophies, and once more 
Paul is writing to Greek Christians, but this time at Ephesus.

Galatians 4:10 is also used to supposedly "prove" that God's annual sabbaths 
and feast days are not to be observed by Christians today. Again, this 
scripture is taken out of context and the historical setting not considered. 
These are also Greek Christians Paul is addressing this time at Gallatia. They 
too had never observed God's laws or feast days previously. In Galations 3 
Paul says that all were in bondage before becoming Christians. What were 
they in bondage to? God's laws? No! They were in bondage to the "elements 
of the world". What are the elements of the world? The Greek word for world 
is kosmos, which means the world system or arrangement. This is the same 
world that God says if you are its friend, you are an enemy of God. (James 4:4) 
The Greek word for elements is stoicheion and Vine's Expository Dictionary 
of Biblical Words states:

"a. In the New Testament it is used of the substance of the material world" 
and "b. the delusive speculations of gentile cults and of Jewish theories, 
treated as elementary principles the rudiments of the world". Colossians 2:8, 
spoken of as "philosophy and vain deceit", these were presented as superior 
to faith in Christ."

The same Greek word for rudiments in Colossians 2:8 is the same word used 
for elements in Galatians 4:3. Vine's says of this "the rudimentary principles of 
religion, Jewish or Gentile, also described as "the rudiments of the world", 
Colossians 2:20, as the weak and beggarly rudiments Galatians 4:3,9, RV, 
constituting a yoke of bondage". Here is the subject of Galatians 4. These are 
not God's laws being discussed but worldly principles and philosophies, 
called humanism and Judaism today. These philosophies resulted in these 
Greeks serving and worshipping false gods. (Galatians 4:8) Yet, Paul is saying 
in verse 9 that after becoming Christians some had gone back and were once 
more practicing the elements of the world, which Paul calls weak and 
beggarly, meaning in the Greek morally weak and destitute. Paul is saying by 
returning to these elements and rudiments of the Greek world system, these 
Galatian Greeks were becoming immoral and destitute of Christianity. These 
Greeks were once more observing these pagan days and months and times 
and years of the false gods of the Greek mythology. Verse 10 in no way, 
shape or form refers to the observing of Gods' annual sabbaths and feast 
days. These heathen days, months, times and years, are still observed in part 
by many professing Christians believing them to be "Christian", which are to 
be destroyed forever by Jesus Christ during the time period in prophesy of 
the "Day of the Lord". (II Peter 3:10-12) Afterwards, there is to be a new earth 
where righteousness will prevail. (II Peter 3:13) What is righteousness? 
Psalms 119:172 says that all of God's laws (which includes the feasts of God) 
are righteousness, and that obeying them brings justice, prosperity and 
morality, not immorality and destitution, as God describes the elements or 
rudiments of the world.

Galatians 4:10 could not be referring to God's annual sabbaths and feast days. 
It is by not observing God's laws that puts us in bondage to sin 
(disobedience). Christians who remain true to the faith are free from the 
bondage of sin and death. (Romans 6:18, 20-22, 8:1-2) Even the Apostle Peter 
explains about those who believe in and practice these elements or rudiments 
of the world are practicing the religion of Baal. II Peter 2:1-3, 10-22. He is also 
referring to those who, once false philosophies, i.e., Baalism. II Peter 2: 20-21, 
15; Colossians 2:8) The prophet Baalim was not just any false prophet. He 
was the chief oracle of Mesopotamia of the Baal mystery religion, which came 
from ancient Babylon. This religion is the worship of the sun god and his 
consort, which was in reality the worship of Nimrod and his wife. See the 
evidence in the Bible dictionary Proper Names of the Old Testament by A. 
Jones and Josephus Antiquities IV, pages 2 and 6. Also Alexander Hislop 
and Mystery Babylon Religion by Ralph Woodrow. This means that God 
through Apostle Peter is saying that the elements of the world described in II 
Peter 2: 9-22 is nothing more or less than the religion of Baal, which God 
condemns many times in the Bible. II Peter 3:10-12 interprets this as the 
elements that will be destroyed and the same Greek word for elements is the 
same Greek word used in Galatians 4:9 for the word elements. The observance 
of days, and months and times, and years in verse 10 definitely refer to these 
elements in verse 9, i.e., the heathen festivals of Baal, not God's weekly or 
annual sabbaths and feast days.

We have shown that the testimony of scripture which God has given include 
God's annual sabbaths and feast days for His people, Israel, to obey as part 
of His Laws. We have shown how that certain scriptures are misused - out of 
context - in order to deceive true Israel and to cause disobedience to God's 
laws. We have shown that Jesus Christ, His disciples, the Apostle Paul and 
fellow Christians of the early church observed them, not because they were 
"jewish" but because they were part of the laws of God Almighty. We have 
shown that Jesus Christ left us an example to follow his teachings and 
practices.

We also now have the testimony of history which substantiates that the early 
Christians observed God's annual sabbaths and feast days. The 
Encyclopedia Britannica, II Edition, verifies these observances by the early 
Christians, although it calls them "Jewish feasts". The gospel of John calls 
them "Jewish" because they were held in Judea in Jerusalem. But we have 
shown that the Greek Christians observed one Passover and Feast of 
Unleavened Bread at Phillipi. (Acts 20:6) Also, John calls the Passover and 
Feast of Tabernacles "the jews' feast" because most of them had rejected 
Jesus Christ and therefore did not observe these feast days in His honor or, 
in other words God's honor, because Jesus said if you reject Hiim you reject 
the Father. (John 14:6, John 1:11)

Also, Polycarp, a disciple of the Apostle John, went to Rome in the early first 
century A.D. to witness to the bishop of Rome, Anecitus, to observe the 
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread beginning on the 14th day of 
Nisan instead of observing Easter Sunday, which Polycarp said he learned 
from the Apostle John. This history is found in Eusebius' Ecclesiastical 
History and the Catholic Encyclopedia article on Easter. This article relates 
how Polycarp wanted Easter celebrated on the 14th of Nisan, but it should 
say the Passover, because Easter was never kept on the 14th of Nisan, but 
the Passover always was on the 14th (the killing of the lamb). The Catholic 
historians knew better than to say "Easter". They were attempting to confuse 
the issue while giving the true historical event. So here is evidence from 
history that the early New Testament Christian church was observing the 
feast days of God Almighty, even as late as the early first century A.D., with 
the witness of Polycarp, who was taught by the Apostle John, the last living 
disciple of Jesus at the time of Polycarp. This history is also given in the 
Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics and states that Polycarp argued for the 
observance of the Passover instead of Easter, which the Bishop of Rome and 
the Catholic Church had begun to observe from heathenism and not from the 
Bible. This is historical evidence that the early Christians, even after the first 
century A.D., observed God's feast days.

We also have the testimony of history that proves the early Christian church 
of the New Testament observed God's feast days. The Encyclopedia 
Britannica, II edition, article Easter reads:

"There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New 
Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic fathers. The first Christians 
continued to observe the Jewish festivals, (all of the Feast days of God 
Almighty), though in a new spirit, as commemorative of events which those 
festivals had foreshadowed. Thus, the Passover, with a new conception 
added to it of Christ as the true paschal lamb and the firstfruits from the dead, 
continuted to be observed." (Parenthesis mine)

This edition of the Britannica was the last one to include theorlogical history. 
Yes, the true early Christian church of the New Testament did not observe 
the heathen Easter festival but, instead, the Passover and all of the feast days 
of God Almighty, just as Jesus Christ did, following His example, I Peter 2:21, 
I John 2:6, as Christians are commanded to do.

The Catholic Encyclopedia article Easter reads:

"That the apostolic fathers do not mention it (Easter) and that we first hear of 
it principally through the controvery of the Quartodecimans are purely 
accidental."

Even the Catholic historians say the apostolic fathers, the original disciples 
of Jesus and Paul, do not mention observing Easter. Acts 12:4 should be read 
Passover instead of Easter, as any Bible commentary will show. This 
encyclopedia article Easter goes on to read:

"The first council of Nicea (325) decreed that the Roman practice (of Easter 
observance) should be observed throughout the church. But even at Rome 
the Easter term was changed repeatedly. Those who continued to keep Easter 
with the Jews were called Quartodecimans and were excluded from the 
church." (Parenthesis mine.)

"The church" means the Roman Catholic church, not the true Christian 
church. Here were Christians observing the Passover instead of Easter. They 
were called Quartodecimans (Yes, the enemies of Christianity labeled them as 
they do today) because they observed the 14th day of God's first month 
Nisan in honor of the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Easter 
was never kept on the 14th of Nisan but always, as today, on a Sunday.
The 14th of Nisan could fall on any day of the week, usually not on a Sunday, 
as in the case today. The writers of this Catholic encyclopedia knew not to 
say "Easter with the Jews" because the Judeans never kept Easter. It should 
read Passover. The word Quartodeciman means the 14th day of the month. 
This Catholic Encyclopedia article Easter admits this:

"The dioceses of all Asia, as from an older tradition, held that the fourteenth 
day of the moon, on which day the Jews were commanded to sacrifice the 
lamb, should always be observed as the feast of the life-giving pasch 
(Passover), contending that the fast ought to end on that day, whatever day 
of the week it might happen to be." (Emphasis mine)

Here is an amazing admission by these Catholic historians, being true to 
history. They admit that the Christians of Asia, where the disciples and 
especially Paul established Christian communities, were saying the Passover 
should always be observed on the 14th day of the moon (God's new months 
begin with the first crescent of the new moon.) They were saying this even 
after the Catholic church was observing Easter Sunday as the resurrection 
day of Jesus, which it is not. The Catholics did not begin to observe Easter 
until the early second century A.D. and, as seen, were excluding Christians 
from the Catholic church who did continue to observe the Passover and all 
the other of God's feast days. If these Christians were observing the Passover 
instituted and observed by Jesus Christ, would they not also be observing all 
of the other feast days of God as Jesus did? Why would they just observe 
the Passover and not the feast of unleavened bread that immediately follows 
it? The scriptures say that they did as we have seen, as also does the 
Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition article Easter. Here is more historical 
proof of this from the Catholic Encyclopedia article Easter.

"A letter to Saint Ireanus is among the extracts just referred to, and this 
shows that the divinity of practice regarding Easter had existed at least from 
the time of Pope Sixtus. Further, Ireanus states that St. Polycarp, who, like the 
other Asiatics, kept Easter (should be Passover) on the fourteenth day of the 
moon, whatever day of the week that might be (not always Saturday or 
Sunday), following therein the tradition which he claimed to have derived 
from St. John, the apostle, come to Rome about 150 A.D. about this very 
question, but could not be persuaded by Pope Anicetus to relinquish his 
Quartodeciman observance. The question thus debated was therefore 
primarily whether Easter was to be kept on a Sunday, or whether Christians 
should observe the holy day of the Jews, the fourteenth of Nisan, which 
might occur on any day of the week. Those who kept Easter (should be 
Passover) with the Jews were called Quartodecimans." (Parenthesis and 
underlining mine)

Again, the word Easter here should be Passover because the Judeans or Jews 
never observed Easter, as did not the early Christian church in the Bible. The 
Catholic historians are trying to confuse this history by saying Easter instead 
of Passover, yet the basic history is still true. Here is Polycarp and other 
Christians of Asia observing the 14th day of Nisan or Passover, and Polycarp 
even saying he got this observance from the Apostle John, one of the 
disciples of Jesus Christ. Here is conclusive proof that the early true Christian 
church observed the Passover, not Easter, and therefore the other feast days 
of God Almighty. This history is also in the Encyclopedia of Religion and 
Ethics. The history of Polycarp is also found in Eubebius' Ecclesiastical 
History Book V, Chapters XXIII and XXIV:

"Aquestion of no small importance arose at that time. For the parishes of all 
Asia, as from an older tradition, held that the fourteenth day of the moon, on 
which day the Jews were commanded to sacrifice the lamb, should be 
observed as the feast of the Saviour's passover... the bishops of Asia, led by 
Polycrates, decided to hold to the old custom handed down to them. He 
himself, in a letter which he addressed to Victor and the church of Rome, set 
forth in the following words the tradition which had come down to him: 'We 
observe the exact day; neither adding, nor taking away. For in Asia also great 
lights have fallen asleep, which shall rise again on the day of the Lord's 
coming, when he shall come with glory from heaven, and shall seek out all of 
the saints. Among these are Phillip, one of the twelve apostles.... and, 
moreover, John, who was both a witness and a teacher, who reclined upon 
the bosom of the Lord... and Polycarp in Smyrna, who was a bishop and 
martyr; and Theaseas, bishop and martyr from Eumeria... the bishop and 
martyr Sargaris... the blessed Papirus, or Melito...' All these observed the 
fourteenth day of the passover according to the Gospel, deviating in no 
respect, but following the rule of faith."

Here is mentioned "great lights", meaning Christians, bearers of the truth or 
the light of Jesus Christ, observing the Passover as did Polycrates, a friend 
and student of Polycarp. If these early Christians, not being Jews or Judeans 
but Greeks, observed the Passover, then it is only logical that they also 
observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread following the Passover and the 
other feast days of God too. Why would they observe only the first feast day 
of God and not the others? The Bible says they were observing Pentecost 
when they were given the mind and courage of Jesus Christ, Acts 2. This was 
after being taught by Jesus Himself for three and one-half years. If the Feast 
days of God Almighty were not to be observed by the Christian church, why 
do we find the disciples of Jesus doing so after being taught by Jesus 
Himself for three and one-half years? The answer is obvious. Jesus never told 
them not to observe the Feast days of God Almighty, but to observe them as 
He did, leaving them and us an example to follow, I Peter 2: 21, I John 2:6.

Is there historical evidence of later Christians of the House of Israel, again 
not Jews or Judeans, observing the Passover and therefore the other feast 
days of God also? Yes, there is. The Catholic Encyclopedia article Easter 
states:

"The Roman missionaries coming to England in the time of St. Gregory the 
Great found the British Christians, the representatives of that Christianity 
which had been introduced into Britain during the period of the Roman 
occupation, still adhering to an ancient system of Easter computatioin which 
Rome itself had laid aside."

What "system of Easter computation" had Rome laid aside? None other than 
the computation of the Passover, miscalled Easter in the Catholic 
Encyclopedia, computing when the 14th day of the moon is in the first 
Hebrew month, Nisan. Rome did not lay aside the heathen Easter festival. It 
was the system of God for computing the day of the Passover, which could 
fall on any day of the week, that Rome laid aside. Notice this from the 
Catholic Encyclopedia article Easter:

"The first ecumenical, or council, of Nicea (325) lasted two months and twelve 
days. Three hundred and eighteen bishops were present. Hosius, bishop of 
Cordova, assisted as legate of Pope Sylvester. The emperor Constantine was 
also present. To this council we owe the Creed of Nicea, defining against 
Arius the true divinity of the Son of God, and fixing of the date for keeping 
Easter."

Yes, the heathen Easter festival is kept by nominal Christians of the Catholic 
church and her daughter churches, the Protestants, instead of the Passover 
and the other Feast days of God because of this council of Catholic hierachy 
and the Roman emperor Constantine. Here is more on this history again from 
the Catholic Encyclopedia article Easter:

"The emperor himself writing to the churches after the council of Nicea, 
exhorts them to adopt its conclusions and says among other things: 'At this 
meeting the question concerning the most holy day of Easter was discussed, 
and it was resolved by the united judgment of all present that this feast ought 
to be kept by all and in every place on one and the same day... and I myself 
have undertaken that this decision should meet with the approval of your 
sagacites in the hope that your wisdom will gladly admit that practice which 
is observed at once in the city of Rome and in Africa, throughout Italy and 
Egypt... with entire unity of judgment.' From this and other indications... we 
learn that the dispute now lay between the Christians of Syria and 
Mesopotomia and dependent upon the Jewish (or Judean) calendar for its 
Easter." (or Passover as it should say) (Parenthesis mine)

Notice, it was the Christians observing the Passover, calculated by the new 
moon of the Judean calendar to determine when was the 14th of Nisan, that 
was in dispute with the Catholic church at Rome and all Italy and Africa and 
Egypt in its observance of the heathen Easter festival. The Christian 
churches of Syria and Mesopotamia were where Paul and Jesus' disciples had 
established Christian churches before going to the lost sheep of the house of 
Israel in western Europe, Scandinavia, and the British isles. Here is more 
conclusive proof that the heathen Easter festival replaced the Passover and 
the feast of unleavened bread and that the Christian churches were still 
observing the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread and not Easter. If 
this is not true, then why was there any dispute as clearly stated there was 
between these areas?

Is there any other history that shows that our forefathers in the ancient 
British isles observed the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread and, if so, 
must have been continually observing the other Feast days of God also? Yes, 
there is.

In Scotland even in the seventh century A.D. our people are found observing 
the Passover. The Catholic religious historian Bede in his Ecclesiastical 
History of the English Nation states:

"The apostle John, following the custom of the law, used to begin the Feast 
of Easter on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month whether it 
fell on the Sabbath or on any other day." (III, 25).

Here Bede states that the last original disciple of Jesus kept the days of 
unleavened bread, beginning with the Passover on the night of the 
fourteenth day of the first Hebrew month, Nisan. Bede says Easter when he 
means the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, beginning on the 
fourteenth day of Nisan. Easter, as has been stated, never was held on this 
date, which we have seen can fall on any day of the week. Easter always was 
held on a fixed day of the week. Sunday, not always falling on the fourteenth 
day of Nisan. Here is more historical evidence that the Apostle John 
observed the feast days of God, and, as history shows, taught Polycarp to 
observe these days, and he taught Polycrates and the Christian churches, 
established by Paul and the original disciples of Jesus in Asia Minor and 
Mesopotamia and Greece, which observed these days also as has been 
proven. Bede goes on to say:

"Nor did our Lord, the Author and Giver of the Gospel, eat the old Passover 
or institute the Sacrament of the New Testament to be celebrated by the 
Church in memory of His passion on... any other day but on the fourteenth." 
(III, 25)

Bede states that some Christians were still observing the fourteenth day of 
the first Hebrew month Nisan, the beginning of the days of unleavened 
bread, in Scotland in the seventh century. (II, 19). In this essay, I have given 
scriptural and historical evidence which no person can deny that absolutely 
proves the Christian church of the Bible observed the feast days of God. It is 
only because of the influence of the Catholic church and her daughter 
churches, the Protestants and their daughters, several independent groups, 
that have deceived people into observing heathen festivals labeled Christian 
by the mother church, the Catholic church, and rejecting the feast days of 
God Almighty that He commanded His people Israel, our forefathers, to 
observe and which Jesus Christ to follow, 1 Peter 2:21, 1 John 2:6. History and 
the Bible shows His Christmas, or Haloween, heathen festivals labeled 
Christian by the Catholic church and repudiated by the true Christian church. 
Read The Two Babylons by Dr. Alexander Hislop and Mystery Babylon 
Religion by Ralph Woodrow. See also the Dake's Annotated Reference Bible 
and its footnote to Acts 12:4.

Now, let me relate what happened when King Hezekiah of Judah broke down 
the high places and groves and altars of Baal, the sun god, and revived the 
Passover and the other feast days of God, thus honoring the only true and 
lving God. He also cleansed the priesthood of Baal priests and placed the 
temple once more to the charge of the Levites, God's priests. (II Chronicles, 
chapters 29-31) Notice what the word of God says was the result in II 
Chronciles 31: 20-21. King Hezekiah and Judah prospered. This is the result 
we can look forward to in the Christian identity churches and in modern Israel 
today if we begin to obey all of God's laws, not just the ones we want to 
obey. The laws of God, without a doubt, include obedience to God's weekly 
seventh day sabbath, His annual sabbaths, and Feast days. If we stubbornly 
deny this truth of God we will not prosper, but we will continue to suffer more 
of the curses for disobedience, (Deuteronomy 28: 1-2, 15), as modern Israel, 
as especially America is now, as America and Canada are the New Israel, as 
America was named by Christians in early colonial times. The Bible teaches 
that God Almighty does not change, Malachi 3:6, and Jesus is the same 
yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13:6. If He blessed and prospered 
king Hezekiah for observing the Feast days of God Almighty, He will 
therefore bless and prosper us as His Caucasian Israel nationally and in the 
Christian church, especially, if we do the same.

II Chronicles 32, Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8.

The scriptures of the prophets, miscalled the Old Testament, which contain 
the laws of God Almighty, including the Feast days of God Almighty, cannot 
be broken, said Jesus. John 10:35. The Greek word for broken means 
destroyed or dissolved, as in John 7:23, Ephesians 2:14, John 2:19, I John 3:8, 
and II Peter 3:11-12. The only scriptures in existence when Jesus spoke John 
10:35 were the scriptures of the prophets, containing the laws, statutes, and 
judgments of God Almighty. These laws contain the command by God 
Almighty to observe His Feast days. Jesus had to be referring to the laws of 
God Almighty when He said these scriptures could not be destroyed. Jesus 
also said in Matthew 5:17 that He came not to destroy the laws of God 
Almighty, the laws that contain God Almighty's commands to observe His 
Feast days. Christ Jesus said in the scripture that He came to fulfill these laws 
of God, Matthew 5:17, as His way of life. Now fulfill in the Greek means to fill 
to the full as to cram a net full of fish, also to execute or to verify, not to do 
away with. If the latter were true, then Jesus contradicted Himself as a lot of 
lying preachers of Baal say He did erroneously. Jesus said He kept His 
Father's laws. John 15:10. These laws contain the observance of the Feast 
days of God Almighty, His Father, which He did observe, leaving us an 
example that we should do as He did. II Peter 2:21 and I John 2:6. The early 
true Christian church and the disciples of Jesus and Apostle Paul apparently 
knew this to be true, because they observed the Feast days of God Almighty, 
beginning in the first Hebrew month of Nisan on the 14th day at twilight. 
These Festival days of God are:

the New Covenant Passover and 
the Feast of Unleavened Bread,
Pentecost,
the Feast Of Trumpets, 
the Day of Atonement, 
and the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Bible and history prove the early true Christian church observed these 
Feasts of God Almighty. Their observance of God's Festivals was definitely a 
part of the faith once delivered to the saints, the Christain people as a nation. 
Atcs 20:6, 18:21, I Corinthians 5:8, which Christians are to keep. Jude 3. God's 
Festivals are part of the before ordained good works of Ephesians 2:10 
Christians should be observing.

In conclusion, let us in the Christian church today in modern Israel follow 
Jesus Christ's example, as the scriptures command us to do as Christians, and 
the true Christian faith of the early New Testament Christian church in 
obeying all the laws and statutes of God Almighty, including the observance 
of the Feast days of God Almighty. If the Caucasian Jacob-Israel people, to 
whom God gave His Commandments and statutes, will obey them, we all will 
prosper as Christians and people, and if not, we will surely suffer more of the 
curses from God futurely that now are upon us. Deuteronomy 28: 1-15, 
Matthew 4:4, 19:16-17, Revelation 22:14.

If you would want to observe any of God's Festivals as a Christian, then 
please phone or write Gene Smith at Christian Bible Research, P.O. Box 203, 
Scurry, Texas, 75158 or phone 817-551-6292. Also you can ask any Bible 
question and then receive a Biblical and, if necessary, a historical answer.

Christian Biblical Research
by Gene Smith
HOW TO CALCULATE GOD'S FEASTS
Leviticus 23:1-2, 37. Matthew 4:4, 5:17-19

1. New Covenant Passover - The Farmer's Almanac gives the day of the 
spring or vernal equinox. Find the day called the new moon in the Almanac. 
However, this is not the actual new moon day but is the time when the moon 
is not visible to the naked eye. It is erroneously called in Judaism the new 
moon because the Talmudist Writers changed the actual new moon day from 
the first visible light crescent of the moon to the total dark of the moon, 
causing this error. The first visible cresent day is the first day of the moon of 
God Elohim's months. After you located the mislabeled new moon day in the 
Farmer's Almanac, count that night number 1 and go to number 3 night. This 
then new moon day in the Bible is the night when the first crescent of the 
moon is visible. This begins each new moon. The spring first new moon night 
and day begins the new year and always comes after the vernal or spring 
equinox. The night of the fourteenth is the New Covenant Passover. The 14th 
night only is when two or more (or a group) of Christians eat leavened bread 
(not unleavened bread), Matthew 26: drink of the cup or grape juice, and then 
wash each other's feet, as Christ had commanded his disciples. John 13. To 
arrive at this fourteenth date, count fourteen nights beginning with the first 
new crescent moon night (night number 3 counting the new moon day in the 
Farmer's Almanac). Leavened bread symbolizes Jesus' body as becoming sin 
(leaven) for those people who would be Christians. 2 Corinthians 5:21, I Peter 
2:21-24, Isaiah 53:6, Hebrews 9:28.

2. The Feast of Unleavened Bread - This begins the fifteenth day of God 
Elohim's first month, which begins as described in paragraph No. 1 above. 
This feast begins, as does all of God Elohim's feasts, at dusk or twilight, just 
before dark or nighttime. This feast begins on the fourteenth day at twilight, 
just about an hour before nightfall. Days begin at night, or when the sun 
does below the horizon and there is no longer sight of the sun, in God 
Elohim's accounting of time. However, all of God Elohim's feasts and the 
Sabbath day begin at dusk or twilight. Leviticus 23: 26-28, 32. The weekly 
Sabbath follows this principle, beginning at twilight Friday evening and 
ending at twilight Saturday evening. When the sun is just above the horizon 
and has an orange glow, it is twilight or dusk. The first and last day of the 
Feast of Unleavened Bread are annual Sabbath days. These Sabbath days are 
observed the same as with the weekly Sabbath (no work or doing business at 
this time). This is a time for worship of God Elohim in a service and/or Bible 
study or family Bible study time if there is not a group with to have a worship 
service. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a seven day feast, and unleavened 
bread is eaten with meals beginning at the start of this feast and throughout 
the seven days. A good unleavened bread source is Spanish Tortillas. This 
symbolically reminds Christians that they need to remain unleavened daily by 
not violating God's laws.

3. The Feast of Pentecost - This Feast occurs counting fifty days from the 
first weekly Sabbath which falls during the seven days of the Feast of 
Unleavened Bread. You will be counting seven weekly Sabbaths from this 
first Sabbath during the Unleavened Bread Feast. Pentecost is always on the 
first day of the week (Sunday). By counting seven weekly Sabbaths being 49 
days and then adding the one day to make fifty being Sunday. Of course, the 
day begins the evening before or at twilight on the Sabbath, after counting as 
described. Pentecost is a one day feast. Therefore, the Feast of Pentecost is 
from Saturday at twilight until twilight Sunday evening. The Feast of 
Pentecost is always determined in this manner, and it therefore always falls 
on the same day, as there is only one weekly Sabbath day during Unleavened 
Bread. Therefore you can easily know when to begin counting fifty. The 
Sunday after the Saturday Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened Bread is when 
counting fifty days begins.

4. The Feast of the Blowing of Trumpets This feast begins at dusk or twilight 
on the last day of the sixth month. This also is the new moon cycle of thirty 
days and ends at dusk or twilight the first day of the seventh month or new 
moon day. It is a one day feast. Just count seven new moon days, beginning 
with the first new moon day in the spring as explained in Paragraph No. 1 on 
page one. Remember the actual new moon is first visible crescent on night 
No. 3, counting the moon day erroneously labeled "new moon" day in the 
Farmer's Almanac as night number one. The crescent is a curved light on the 
edge of the moon visible to the human eyes at night.

5. The Feast of Atonement This is a feast day also, not a fast day as some 
depict erroneously. This feast is listed as one of the Feasts of God Elohim in 
Leviticus 23, so the Feast of Atonement is a feast, not a fast. It is a one day 
feast as are the Feasts of Pentecost and Trumpets. The Feast of Atonement 
begins on the ninth day at even or dusk or twilight and ends 24 hours later on 
the tenth day at even, or at twilight of the seventh new moon cycle (which we 
call a month on the Roman calendar). Leviticus 23: 26-31.

6. The Feast of Tabernacles This is the big Feast of God Elohim in the 
autumn. This Feast is for eight days. The first day of this Feast is an annual 
Sabbath day and the eighth day is an annual Sabbath day, called the last 
great day of the Feast. This Feast begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of 
the seventh new moon cycle/month and ends on the twenty-second day of 
the seventh new moon cycle/month at twilight. The Bible says it begins on 
the fifteenth day and lasts for seven days, with the eighth day being the last 
great day of God's Feasts. This ends God's Feasts until the next year. God's 
new year begins with the first new moon after the spring equinox, not before 
or on the spring equinox. The new moon is the first visible curved light.

MEANING OF THE FEASTS OF GOD ELOHIM

Elohim is a Hebrew word meaning God the Father and Christ Jesus. These 
Feasts or festivals are God Elohim's festivals, not the Jews. Leviticus 23:2. 
These festivals are for Christians, as the New Covenant Christian church 
observed them annually. 1 Corinthians 5:8, Acts 20:6, Acts 18:21 The word 
Jews mean the people who were citizens of Judea. The original Christian 
Church did not observe the pagan festivals or holidays with their heathen 
customs. These, unfortunately, are observed today by the vast majority of 
the professing Christians, in the place of God's Feasts. God's Feasts are for 
Christians. God's Feasts are in God's Laws with no sacrificial laws. Exodus 
23:14-16, Deut. 16:1-17, Jeremiah 7:21-23.

1. Passover pictures the death of Christ Jesus for our sins because of our 
violation of God Elohim's laws. I John 3:4, Romans 7:7, I Corinthians 11:26. 
Leavened bread is used to depict Christ Jesus' body becoming sin for us, 
having taken upon Himself our sins. Sin, in the New Testament scriptures, is 
symbolically represented by leaven; therefore leavened bread is used at this 
service. I Corinthians 5:1-7, I Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53:6. 2. Corinthians 5:21. The 
bread symbolizes Christ Jesus' beaten body and the wine or grape juice 
symbolizes His shed blood. Isaiah 53:6, Matthew 26:26-28. We wash each 
other's feet as commanded by Christ to His disciples to show our humbleness 
and service as Christians. John 13:4-17. This is done after partaking of the 
leavened bread and wine/grape juice, which is a representation of Christ 
Jesus' body and shed blood at His death, and not those literally.

2. The Feast of Unleavened Bread pictures Christians coming out of sin as 
ancient Israel came out of Egypt. Egypt is symbolic of sin in the scriptures. I 
Corinthians 5:1-8, Revelation 11:8 Leaven pictures sin in our personal lives 
being removed by Christ Jesus.

3. The Feast of Pentecost pictures the Christian church witnessing the Bible 
and Christ Jesus teachings and obeying God Elohim's laws without fear. Luke 
1:68, 74-79, Acts 1: 6-8, Acts 2:1, 11-28, 38-42, Romans 8:15-17. This Feast is a 
picture of the history of the Christian Church and to honor Christian martyrs. 
Revelation 6:10-11.

4. The Feast of Blowing of Trumpets pictures Christ Jesus returning to this 
earth in a cloud, waging war on His enemies, defeating them, and establishing 
His kingdom/government forever on this earth. Isaiah 9:6-7, Zechariah 14:9; 2 
Timothy 4:1, Revelation 19:11-13, Revelation 5:9-10, 2:26-27. This is a literal 
war and government with God's laws the rules eternally.

5. The Feast of the Atonement pictures Christians studying God Elohim's 
Word to find what we are doing wrong, repenting to Christ Jesus, and 
correcting our lives. To afflict your soul is to be in a remorseful and repentant 
attitude when we know we have violated God's Law. Word, not to fast. 
Psalms 51, James 4:9-10, 2 Timothy 2: 15, 3: 16-17, Matthew 18:1-4. The 
Hebrew for the word afflict means to depress yourself. This is from 
repentance, not fasting.

6. The Feast of Tabernacles pictures God's kingdom on this earth eternally. 
Zechariah 14:9, Micah 2: 1-5, Luke 1:68-72, Revelation 11:15. Zechariah 14:16-
21 says God's Feasts will be observed in God's kingdom government on this 
earth when Christ Jesus returns.

DATES FOR GOD ELOHIM'S FEASTS IN 1999

God Elohim's New year First Month is on night of April 18, Sunday, when 
first crescent visible.

1. New Covenant Passover service begins on night on May 1, Saturday. This 
is a memorial service on the 14th on this night only annually. Christians eat 
leavened bread, drink, grape juice, wash feet.

2. Feast of Unleavened Bread begins at twilight on May 2, Sunday, and ends 
at twilight on May 8, Saturday. The first day and the last day are Holy 
Sabbaths.

3. Feast of Pentecost begins at twilight on June 26, Saturday, and ends at 
twilight on June 27, Sunday. This is a one day Feast, Holy Sabbath, and for 
Bible study worship time.

4. Feast of the Blowing of trumpets begins at twilight on October 11, Monday 
and ends at dusk or at twilight on October 12, Tuesday. This also is a Holy 
Sabbath one day Festival.

5. Feast of the Atonement begins at twilight on October 20, Wednesday, 
ends at twilight on October 21, Thursday. This also is a one day Holy 
Sabbath Feast, not a fast day. Leviticus 23:1-2

6. Feast of Tabernacles begins at twilight on October 25, Monday, ends the 
last Great Day Tuesday at twilight on November 2. The first day and the last 
Great Day are Holy Sabbaths.

7. The New Covenant Passover Service can be observed one month later, the 
night of May 31, if only you were for some reason unable to do so on May 2. 
Numbers 9:10-11. This second date is the 14th day of the second month or 
moon of God's calendar.

This information was taken from the following Bible Dictionaries: Unger's, 
Eardman's and Harper's.

To have any questions Biblically answered, please write or phone Gene Smith 
of Christian Biblical Research, P.O. Box 203, Scurry, Texas, 75158, phone: 817-
551-6292